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Thursday, 25 May 2017

Hello! I hope that everyone is having a great week so far. We are just about to hit half term - it comes round with increasing regularity! - and so I'm gearing up for some things to do and hoping it doesn't rain much.I'm sharing a card I made for a very lovely crafty friend's birthday. She loves Stamping Bella and she loves the colour purple, so I decided to colour up this stamp which I've had for a while and which has been crying out for me to colour.

Perfect timing of course as the Lily of the Valley by the front steps have just started to open.

I've kept the card simple and focussed on the colouring, which I've done with Copic markers, as I need to practice for my upcoming Class Three. I have a previous post sharing how much fun I had at Classes One and Two, which you might enjoy.Anyway, back to my card. I stamped out my Garden Girl - Lily of the Valley onto a piece of Make It Colour Blending card with Memento Tuxedo Black using my Precision Press, in case I had to double stamp, but I find rubber stamps much better than photopolymer on a first stamp, so I didn't need to.I then started colouring her in with my Copic markers. These stamps always come with a picture of the image coloured in on the packet, so I usually take some inspiration from this and help with blending and skin tones.I tried working on my folds and I'm quite pleased with how the skirt turned out.

I kept it simple and framed it with some Lawn Fawn Perfectly Plaid paper cut out with the frame from WPlus9 Sunshine Layers. I then trimmed the panel and attached it to an A2 card layered with some nice lavender card.

Here is a list of the supplies used on this card. I have signed up to affiliate links on some products (currently only Simon Says Stamp). If you purchase any item after clicking on an affiliate link, I will receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. This helps in a small way to support the running of my blog and is very much appreciated, thank you!

Friday, 12 May 2017

Hello again my crafty friends! Thank you all so much for taking the time to watch my craft room tour and for all your lovely comments. I am loving my space and try to escape here as much as I can.I managed to film a card making video this week showing this cute penny slider/spinner card I made with Clearly Besotted Stamps. They reopened at the end of last week with a new release and I couldn't be happier.Onto my card:

If you've followed me for a while and watched my last card making video, this will look familiar. It's melonizing time! If you're not familiar with melonizing, or melonentierchen to give it its proper title, it's simply a silly and fun challenge to colour things to look like melons. You can follow Danie on Instagram to get more inspiration - she's the crafty lady who came up with it! I'll not go into much detail as my video tells more - although I confess I rather over edited to get it down to a decent length, so apologies that some of it skips a bit. I've also kept it in real time. I am still finding my feet with videos, so I hope you'll bear with me. I appreciate all your support!

And here's the video:

Here is a list of the supplies used on this card. I have signed up to affiliate links on some products. If you purchase any item after clicking on an affiliate link (currently Simon Says Stamp), I will receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. This helps in a small way to support the running of my blog and is very much appreciated, thank you!

Sunday, 7 May 2017

Hello Everyone. Here it is, the post you've all been waiting for - a tour of my new craft room! If you're a regular reader you'll know that since March I've been working on and moving out of my old craft room. I did my first Craft Room Tour of my old space back in February 2016 and I have some more recent posts on refurbishing it and working on my new space:Craft Room Goings On - An UpdateMagazine Makes #6 and a Craft Room UpdateI won't say much else than enjoy the tour and if you have any questions, please leave me a comment below or on YouTube and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.

Below are links to some of the furniture in my room. No affiliate links are used.

Thursday, 4 May 2017

This month at the Flower Challenge it's your turn to do some CASEing, this time of one of the Design Team's cards. You can pick whichever one you wish to CASE, just let us know in your post.

Here's my card for inspiration:

You might recognise those WPlus9 Doodle Buds. I coloured them up during the Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge and finally got round to making a card with them a few weeks ago to send to a crafty friend.The flowers were all stamped onto Make It Colour card with Memento Tuxedo Black and then coloured with yellow and grey Copic markers. I then fussy cut them all out - I really do enjoy fussy cutting. So much so because I actually forgot I had the dies to go with them!

I die cut a stitched frame from some grey card stock and adhered it to my card base with foam pads. I then spent a considerable amount of time figuring out where to put the flowers. Once I was happy I took a picture on my phone - a good tip if you want to remember a layout - and then attached the flowers with glue dots so they wouldn't be fully stuck down but still give dimension.I added a sentiment from my Many Mini Messages set onto some yellow card stock and adhered it with foam pads. Some sequins spread out across the card finished it off.

Here is a list of the supplies used on this card. I have signed up to affiliate links on some products (currently only Simon Says Stamp). If you purchase any item after clicking on an affiliate link, I will receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. This helps in a small way to support the running of my blog and is very much appreciated, thank you!

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I've been paper crafting and card making for three years now, grabbing time when I can in between looking after two children. When I started my children napped, but now they are older I have to find time in evenings and when they telly is on :) Happy Crafting Everyone!